Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread Larry Brigman
'fsresize' is your friend after you change your partition sizes. On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 5:12 PM Chuck Hast Select morsels of good data, thanks to you all. I went in and looked at the > 9.1G partition, > it has /tmp and /var in there so yes those have a bunch of log files and > whatnot in there. >

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread Chuck Hast
Select morsels of good data, thanks to you all. I went in and looked at the 9.1G partition, it has /tmp and /var in there so yes those have a bunch of log files and whatnot in there. Now I will just re-size the thing when I get home (I am on the road in a hotel tonight). I am going to have to

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Nat Taylor wrote: if you type du / | sort -n And, if you append the -sh options to the disk usage command the results will be a summary for each section (e.g., directory) and in human-readable format. A second pass within a large directory, without the '-s' option

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread Nat Taylor
if you type du / | sort -n it will tell you the size of all the files and folders underneath / (Everything!), and pipe it to the sort program, which will sort by size when you give it the -n flag you will need to wait a while for the operation to complete, and it won't look into protected

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread King Beowulf
On 11/4/18 8:37 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > Well, doing a df I see that / is the 9.1G partition and the other one is > /home. > > Prior to cleaning, the partition was 9.05G full, after doing the cleanup it > is now down to 8.7G. > so I have got to see what all is in it. Or I will have to make it

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-04 Thread Chuck Hast
Well, doing a df I see that / is the 9.1G partition and the other one is /home. Prior to cleaning, the partition was 9.05G full, after doing the cleanup it is now down to 8.7G. so I have got to see what all is in it. Or I will have to make it bigger. I have a boat load of empty space on the HD so

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-04 Thread Larry Brigman
Use 'df' to see what partitions are in use and percentage. On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 8:14 PM Bill Barry On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:40 AM Chuck Hast wrote: > > > I went in and was able to boot to the previous image. The recovery > offered > > to remove all > > unneeded files, then did the update. I was

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-04 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:40 AM Chuck Hast wrote: > I went in and was able to boot to the previous image. The recovery offered > to remove all > unneeded files, then did the update. I was able to restart it. For > some reason it reported > that root was full, but (I double checked this) it was

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-04 Thread Chuck Hast
I went in and was able to boot to the previous image. The recovery offered to remove all unneeded files, then did the update. I was able to restart it. For some reason it reported that root was full, but (I double checked this) it was saying "root". There is a "root " directory in the boot

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-04 Thread Nat Taylor
cd / du . | sort -n On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 5:42 PM Bill Barry wrote: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:34 AM Chuck Hast wrote: > > > Folks. > > I went to do an update when it tried to upgrade things the whole thing > > abended > > with a batch of lines indicating that "root was almost full". I went

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-04 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:34 AM Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks. > I went to do an update when it tried to upgrade things the whole thing > abended > with a batch of lines indicating that "root was almost full". I went to > look at it and > found the the directory had to be accessed as administrator,

[PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-04 Thread Chuck Hast
Folks. I went to do an update when it tried to upgrade things the whole thing abended with a batch of lines indicating that "root was almost full". I went to look at it and found the the directory had to be accessed as administrator, when I looked into it I did not see anything of large size. The